Daming: After self-explosive time travel, Lao Zhu's mentality collapsed

Chapter 134 Engaging in technology is burning money, you know?
Although he was still a little worried that Chu Ze would be too busy, in the end Zhu Biao still agreed to prepare for Chu Ze to teach a group of alchemists on his own.

From the venue to the personnel, Chu Ze didn't need to worry about these things, he just had to do his own thing well.

And the next time, everything seemed to be on the right track.

Chu Ze ran between his house and the palace at two o'clock every day.

There were more and more things, and he became more and more busy.

And since the finalization of the feudal lord's enfeoffment, Zhu Di has gradually become busy.

In order to fulfill his order, Zhu Yuanzhang specially arranged a training ground for Zhu Di, and directly arranged Xu Da, Li Wenzhong, Feng Sheng, Lan Yu and other generals as Zhu Di's opponents and teachers.

Occasionally, when Zhu Di came to look for Chu Ze in his busy schedule, he always felt that this guy's eye sockets were swollen.

After a busy day, I dragged my tired body back home.

Before Chu Ze had time to take a good rest, a porter quickly ran in holding a red invitation card.

"Master, this is the invitation sent by Hu Xiangguo's residence just now, please take a look at it."

"Hu Xiangguo?"

When Chu Ze heard that it was Hu Weiyong who sent him the invitation.

He frowned slightly, and reached out to accept the invitation.

Chu Ze revealed that it had been more than half a month, to say the least, and during this time, he had contact with Hu Weiyong twice.

The other party actually took the initiative to send him an invitation.

That's kind of interesting, isn't it.

"You actually sent me an invitation to marry a concubine? Or is this a temptation?"

After Chu Ze finished reading the contents of the invitation, he frowned slightly and threw the things directly on the table.

Although Chu Ze is now extremely low-key on this three-acre land in Yingtian Mansion.

He is simply busy with his own affairs every day, but he is low-key, but he is by no means an unknown person.

The fact that he is Lan Yu's prospective son-in-law has now spread.

And after he raised the issue of the vassal king's conferment in the court, so many people paid attention to him.

Everyone has seen how active Yan Wang Zhu Di has been recently.

All the generals of the Empire's National Pearl, who have been his teachers and opponents one after another, outside Yingtianfu City, shouted and killed almost every day.

And these were almost all caused by Chu Ze.

It was precisely because of these that Chu Ze was not surprised when he received Hu Weiyong's invitation.

"It's sad to be at the end of the road without knowing it."

After shaking his head secretly, Chu Ze didn't take this matter too seriously.

After resting for a while, he got up and went directly to the front yard.

His front yard had been completely remodeled a few days earlier.

The huge front courtyard was flattened and filled into a spacious small square.

And above the square, a work area was arranged almost according to his testing ground.

After arranging two guards to help, Chu Ze put on his apron and started to toss about in the work area.

"Huchuze! I'm here again... Hey, are you cooking? Why are you still cooking yourself? What delicious food did you cook?"

While Chu Ze was busy with his own affairs, Zhu Di, who finished a day's training, dragged his tired body to the front yard of Chu Ze's house.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw Chu Ze, who was stirring a pot non-stop, holding a large spatula and wearing an apron.

Apron, spatula.

This configuration, just looking at it, Zhu Di thought of cooking.

So, he leaned over curiously.

I want to see what delicious food Chu Ze has cooked.

"Are you hungry? That's just right. There are ready ones over there. You can try them first."

When Chu Ze saw Zhu Di walking in, he smiled and threw the spatula aside.

Then he pointed to a shelf next to him.

On it, was the soap that was drying in the shade and waiting to solidify.

That's right, what Chu Ze is making is soap.

"Uh, forget it, I still don't want to eat."

After seeing the sinister look on Chu Ze's face, Zhu Di's heart skipped a beat.

This guy is fooling me!He was definitely fooling me.
"How could this guy have such a good interest in cooking for himself? Besides, your iron pot, I still remember that the last thing you cooked was a big pot of ashes."

"What the hell have you been messing with all day long? What kind of good stuff did you make this time? Tell me quickly."

Seeing Chu Ze take off his apron and come to the shelf, Zhu Di also reached out and poked the yellowish things on the shelf.

"There have been more and more accidents at the test site in recent days, and some strange smells have been stained on my body. I tried many methods but couldn't wash it off, so I tried to get some soap and asked the maid to use it Wash this thing to see if it can remove the smell."

"By the way, you'll take some back with you later. Wash those underwear on your body. It's a good thing to take care of your hygiene."

After Chu Ze finished speaking, the knife cut the gradually solidified soap in the mold into roughly proportional sizes.

Then he picked up a piece casually and kneaded it a few times in his hands. After feeling good to the touch, he dipped his hands in water and started to knead them.

"Hey, this thing was originally used to wash hands and clothes! You kid still wants to fool me into eating it."

After Zhu Di saw how Chu Ze used it, he also tried it.

"How's the result of your recent training? Looking at you like this, you probably got a lot of beatings today!"

After washing his hands, Chu Ze led Zhu Di directly to the living room.

After hearing Chu Ze ask about his training, Zhu Di suddenly had a bitter expression on his face.

"Hey, don't mention it. According to my original intention, I wanted my father-in-law to teach me more about the skills of leading and training soldiers. As a result, after my father found out about this from somewhere, he immediately sent us to the Ming Dynasty. All the generals worthy of the title have been brought here."

"Good guy, I practice physical fitness and martial arts when I get up in the morning, and then I am beaten all morning, and I start to practice sand table deduction at noon, and I am abused for another noon, and when the weather cools down in the afternoon, I start to practice military formations, and I change the captives or soldiers in the afternoon. Annihilate me."

"Sometimes I spend the night outside the city at night, and I have to be attacked by their soldiers. You don't know, I have been captured three or four times a day on average these days, I am so tired of beating!"

As soon as he mentioned about his own training, Zhu Di felt his head hurt.

After Chu Ze heard what Zhu Di said, he couldn't help narrowing his eyes slightly.

"Are you still complaining about this? Do you know that many people are crying and begging for treatment, which is probably useless. Daming Great Wall Xu Da, plus Li Wenzhong, Feng Sheng and others personally guide them, and a fierce general like Lan Yu will accompany him as a training partner."

"If you can become a teacher, it will be amazing!"

"Hehe, I didn't complain either! I simply didn't expect that I was so weak. But after this period of time, I have grown a lot. Now at least, I can fight back occasionally."

"My father-in-law praised me for being extremely talented in warfare!"

After Zhu Di heard Chu Ze's words, he quickly refuted.

He's not complaining, well, he's in pain and happiness.

Under the crazy abuse by Xu Da, Li Wenzhong and others, Zhu Di during this period was like a dry sponge, frantically absorbing various external nutrients in every defeat.

Although he is still abused miserably every day, his growth rate is also extremely terrifying.

"By the way, let's not talk about me, how is your business? Have you got any new research results recently? For example, some powerful weapons, or something else. Give me a little bit of time Get to know each other."

"I see that the day of the expedition is getting closer and closer. You promised me at the time that you would prepare a batch of big weapons for me to kill all directions. We can't say this without counting!"

Compared with his own training results, Zhu Di is actually more concerned about Chu Ze's research results.

After this guy came up with a grenade and granulated gunpowder, it directly increased the lethality of the firearm by a large amount.

Even when Xu Da and the others taught him combat experience, they had already incorporated grenades into the combat system.

Qingqi is equipped with grenades, and instead of touching the frontal cavalry attack, it is dedicated to flank harassment and surprise infantry.

They have tried with targets. If the light cavalry is paired with short-range fast horses, these light cavalry who specialize in playing grenades can completely treat the infantry phalanx and heavy cavalry like fools.

After the grenade was thrown on the ground, the shrapnel exploded from the bottom up, spreading and killing around.

Although the horses of the heavy cavalry also have armor to block, the legs and belly of the horse are the blind spots of defense.

After the grenade was thrown on the ground and exploded, it didn't explode people, only horses.

The means are simply dirty and effective.

After seeing the effect of the grenade, Zhu Di was full of expectations for Chu Ze's research results.

"The results of the research are a bit overwhelming. The key is that it is difficult to carve the rifle, but I can give this to you first."

Chu Ze seemed to have guessed that Zhu Di would come to him. As soon as Zhu Di mentioned that the research was successful, he took out a few small iron balls with tail fins from a cowhide bag on his waist.

"What is this?"

"This is the ammunition I poured out myself, and it is directly stamped out with hot stamping technology. Make a base mold and a steel gland, heat the small iron balls to soften them, put them directly in the mold, and use Heavy objects are hammered, and it can be shaped in one go.”

"This is a temporary substitute I prepared for you. If I haven't got the primer before you leave, then you can use this thing first to make do with it."

"This bullet is thin at the front and thick at the back, and a spiral fin is added to the tail."

"When the base is filled, there is a cork, which can increase the closure of the gun pond. After the bullet is fired, the spiral tail can promote the rotation of the bullet, thereby stabilizing the flight trajectory of the bullet."

"The sharp shape can also reduce air resistance and allow bullets to fly farther."

After listening to Chu Ze's introduction, Zhu Di basically didn't understand anything, but this didn't affect his understanding.

"You mean, with our current firearms, firing bullets like this directly can hit farther and be more accurate, right?"

"Almost, I tried it. Although the difficulty of production has increased a lot, if manpower is replaced by hydraulic stamping, the output should not be reduced much."

"Of course, the key is the steel that costs a lot to make molds."

"At present, there is no way to do it. Compared with rifling the gun, changing the shape of the bullet is much easier to deal with with my ability."

In modern firearms, almost all barrels are rifled.

And Chu Ze is just an ordinary person, he doesn't even know how to carve a rifling.

Not to mention thinking about rifling the gun in this era.

So when he first considered researching integrated ammunition, he directly chose a shotgun that did not require rifling.

This thing hits shotguns, relying on the killing range to ignore accuracy.

All, although he also knows that there is a kind of bullet called Mini bullet, which can be used as a substitute in the integrated ammunition.

However, if you know it, you know it, but you can't!
"Have you tried this thing? It looks so strange, it looks a bit like a little goldfish."

"I tried it, and the accuracy has improved a lot, and because after the bullet is fired, the bullet is rotated by the tail, and the warhead is biased towards a sharp point, the lethality and flight distance have increased a lot."

"Overall, it's pretty good."

After hearing what Chu Ze said, Zhu Di was overjoyed and put away the things Chu Ze threw to him.

Then he said happily.

"As long as it can increase its power, it's a good thing. How many of these things have you produced? Are there any in the palace? How about I ask someone to pull a batch out of the city tomorrow to try?"

Although he couldn't understand the meaning of most of Chu Ze's words, Zhu Di didn't care about them.

As long as it is convenient for him to kill the enemy on the battlefield, it is definitely a good thing.

"There are not many things. I remember that there is a big river not far from Yingtianfu City, right? If not, go to the river and build a production line. When the time comes, make a batch first, and you can just use it."

"However. It is estimated that this set will cost a lot of money. What do you say?"

"Huh? Do you want me to pay for it myself?"

"Otherwise you let me pay? Do you think I look rich?"

Zhu Di, who was originally full of joy, had to pay for it himself when he heard that the bullet was going to be made.

Zhu Di's whole face immediately collapsed.

What a joke.

Although he is a vassal king, he has year-old rice allocated by the court every year.

But these things are not enough to support him to build a production line.

The point is, after the production line is built, bullets need to be produced, and a steady stream of iron is needed.
Where did he get so much money?
"Chu Ze, why don't you ask your elder brother to apply for a loan first? How about I go to the territory to make some money then, how about making it up?"

"Hehe, your elder brother has already started to feel a little bit overwhelmed by the research I do here. In my experimental field, dozens of stoves burn money every day."

"Compiling teaching materials later, recruiting and preparing to train alchemists, that's all money."

"There is still money to open a school later."

"I'm embarrassed to say this anyway."

(End of this chapter)